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seanery
post Oct 12 2004, 10:30 PM
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I found this behind the medicine chest.

60 + years of blades! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)


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post Oct 12 2004, 10:32 PM
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post Oct 12 2004, 10:43 PM
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someone musta spilled a box of blades... er...

At work right now we have a bucket full of those things (literally a 5 gallon bucket). It was a freebe from next door. Imagine sticking your hand in a bucket of razor blades... I still havent done it.
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post Oct 12 2004, 10:48 PM
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the one in the front still has some blow on it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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post Oct 12 2004, 10:51 PM
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Wasn't my house, but while doing an HVAC install in a house built in the early 1900's we tore into a wall for the flue and found the walls insulated with "old" Denver Post newspapers (can you say "FIRE HAZARD"), and a tin Budweiser beer can in mint condition (the kind you used a can opener on). I wanted the beer can, but the 'boss' snatched it up (bastard!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 12:32 AM
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post Oct 13 2004, 12:34 AM
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QUOTE(seanery @ Oct 12 2004, 08:30 PM)
I found this behind the medicine chest.

60 + years of blades! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Some houses had a disposal slot for discarding your old blades. It was a modern convienence! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 04:32 AM
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I was helping a friend put on an addition....ripped off the siding....found the sheathing was rifle packing crates from the Springfield Armory
Found an alarm clock in one of my walls (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 06:29 AM
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When we did a renovation on my great grandmothers place out in the country. We found an old muzzel loader behind a hatch in the kitchen pantery. My grandmother said it was for when indians may attack? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 06:40 AM
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QUOTE(seanery @ Oct 12 2004, 08:30 PM)
I found this behind the medicine chest.

60 + years of blades!  :o

Some houses had a disposal slot for discarding your old blades. It was a modern convienence! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Yeah, I vaguely remember medicine cabinets that had a slot in the back wall labeled "razor blades" for disposal. That was back in the days of the double and single edge safety razors.

Those razors may have been the latest technology at the time, but they were dangerous. Last year I switched from twin edge cartridge type to the new triple edge flexy type razors. They sure do work well. Better shave and fewer nicks. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 06:45 AM
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Old newspapers for insulation, Mice skeletons, droppings

And a tiffany box that had a gold palm leaf in it, dont know who it belonged to.
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post Oct 13 2004, 07:48 AM
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post Oct 13 2004, 07:49 AM
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My house had (and still has) old feed sacks for insulation!

They go back to around 1931
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post Oct 13 2004, 07:55 AM
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Helped a friend re-wire his house. Found a lot of late 1800 / early 1900 coins.

My old house just had half dollar coins on top of the med cabinet. Also there were pennies in every window sill??
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post Oct 13 2004, 07:56 AM
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yeah, the medicine chest had the razor slot. I was just surprised how many there were in there. The previous owners lived here for 37 years, but the husband had died after 10 years or so, so that's a pretty good stack for such a short(ish) amount of time.

Something else I found when I was taking down the drop ceiling in the basement was WWII war posters. I was bummed that they were cut up to form shapes where the tiles wouldn't fit.
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post Oct 13 2004, 07:58 AM
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Lots of dead rats, rat poop, used tampons, money, Playboys, old newspapers, sawdust insulation etc..

I posted a pic of several dead rats in a wall last year....yuck.

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post Oct 13 2004, 08:36 AM
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I was helping put up new sheet rick in a fraternity ouse about 15 years ago. When we tore out the old stuff, and the lathe behind it, we found a built in contraband hiding box with some old liquor bottles from prohibition. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Oct 13 2004, 08:53 AM
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I tore out a wall and found a 916


But it was rusted bad. So I put out on the curb and some guy in a pickup truck hauled it off. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool_shades.gif)

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post Oct 13 2004, 09:01 AM
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We just did a kitchen bath remodel in the last 6 months and had to move a wall... House is 1880.

found a bunch of goodies...
a letter from Kansas to once previous owners.
guy in the letter bought the first car in town and sold his drey business to buy a ford dealership (1st one around)

It was funny that he had this car but in the letter they were describing how he was trying to learn to drive it still and wouldn't take his wife along for a ride yet because he didn't feel he had the driving skills yet.

Also found an entire floor lined with newspapers and even comics from 1942. They were in excellent shape and we framed a few of them. Full of stories about the "japs" bombing, and about the discussion of drafting school children for the war. Very non PC, but interesting.
Also in the newspapers were some classified sections. Lots of really neat cars for sale and all of the dealers included a new set of tires with every purchase due to rationing of rubber...

Also in the classifieds are a bunch of houses for sale or for rent in our neighborhood.... apparently a going rental rate for a house without utilities was around $15/month.

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post Oct 13 2004, 09:45 AM
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QUOTE(TimT @ Oct 13 2004, 04:45 AM)
...Mice skeletons, droppings...

Sounds like my engine when I tore it apart...

Theres nothing better then removing the shroud and having rat shit fall all over your lap...

My house is from 1910, but its been in the family for a long time so we dont have any wierd stuff.
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